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Japanese designer Kei Harada has created two chairs made completely out of rubber.

Harada based the project on a Surrealist image by American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman called Dali Atomicus, which illustrates a silhouetted chair crashing towards a chaotic scene that includes flying cats, a bucket of water and the artist Salvador Dali suspended in mid-air.

The designer told Dezeen, “If I could change one thing about the photograph, I would transform the chair into a rubber one; by doing so, I could add a little ease to the photograph because a rubber chair would inflict less damage to the floor, walls, and the chair itself.”

The elastic material provides a more malleable chair, so the back and legs bend in response to the sitter’s posture.

There are two seats in the Chair for Dali series: one chair has a square back rest and is made of rubber with 70% hardness whilst the other has a rounded back and is made of rubber with 90% hardness, making the leg bracing unnecessary.

Above: Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman

Other rubber furniture we’ve featured include Thomas Schnur’s table with plungers for feet and a stool made from recycled rubber.

Chair photographs are by Kazutaka Fujimoto.

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Product news: British designer Benjamin Hubert has created a chair with a hammock-like back for Italian furniture brand Moroso.

Called Cradle, the design is a cross between an upholstered lounge chair and a flexible hammock.

The steel frame of the hammock supports a textile mesh, which has been CNC-cut to allow it to stretch around the sitter’s shape.

“The chair’s aesthetic is purposefully architectural with a sharp rectilinear backrest contrasted with a softer seating area,” explains Hubert.

The chair was launched in Milan last month alongside another of chair by Hubert for Moroso, which looks as if it’s wrapped in a cloak – see all Dezeen’s coverage of Milan 2013.

Other designs by Hubert we’ve featured lately include a metal frame armchair that weighs only three kilograms and a family of terracotta pots with rubber lids – see all design by Benjamin Hubert.

Other Moroso furniture we’ve published includes Patricia Urquiola’s chairs with backrests wrapped in rush and Nendo’s chair shaped like a stiletto heel – see all furniture by Moroso.

Here’s some more information from the designer:

Cradle is a new lounge chair launching at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April 2013. The project is the result of a close collaboration between Benjamin Hubert and Italian brand Moroso.

The product is a unique blend of two typologies of seating – a net structured hammock and a conventional upholstered lounge chair. The chair’s aesthetic is purposefully architectural with a sharp rectilinear backrest contrasted with a softer seating area, breaking traditional rules of seating typology and styling.

The chair stems from the studio’s materials-driven, process-led industrial design approach, research into the construction of mesh materials, and a study of the relationships between traditional seating components.

Cradle utilises a custom-made cut pattern that allows a non-elastic textile to stretch in a controlled manner in a three dimensional form. This allows for the correct tension to comfortably support the body and both visually and physically reduces the product’s weight and cost.

The chair comprises a metal frame supporting a non-elastic textile with a geometric cut pattern, which cradles an upholstered seat block.

Materials: CNC-cut Kvadrat textile mesh, steel frame, moulded polyurethane, Kvadrat textile

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